Ale
[eɪl]Meaning
A Finnish, Italian and Spanish short form of Aleksanteri, Alessandro and Alejandro.
Background Story
Ale is a Finnish short form of Aleksanteri or Aleksi, an Italian short form of Alessandro, and a Spanish short form of Alejandro or Alejandra. A separate Germanic name Ale was originally a short form of names beginning with the element adal, meaning "noble". The name is used in Albanian, Amharic, Ancient Greek, Arabic, Armenian, Azerbaijani, Basque, Belarusian, Biblical, Biblical Greek, Bosnian and Bulgarian, and in Germanic and Portuguese.
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